Aperfield

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Aperfield
Kent

The Aperfield Cedar
Location
Grid reference: TQ425585
Location: 51°18’25"N, -0°2’41"E
Data
Post town: Westerham
Postcode: TN16
Dialling code: 01959
Local Government
Council: Bromley
Parliamentary
constituency:
Orpington

Aperfield is a hamlet in Kent, just outside the reach of the metropolitan conurbation.

The hamlet is found near Biggin Hill and Berry's Green. The name has its first recorded use in 1242 as Apeldrefeld and means "field where apple trees grow", from the Old English words apuldor and feld.[1]

References

  1. Mills, A.D. (2010). A Dictionary of London Place-Names. Oxford University Press. p. 4. ISBN 9780199566785.